If I create a proposal and gain reputation from users joining my proposal, what happens to such reputation when the proposal is eventually closed, or when it progresses to a main site (after public ...

Why do we lose reputation when someone downvotes one of our example questions?
From my point of view (as a very inexperienced Area 51 user), the point of posting example questions is to establish the ...

I received 1 points for joining and 50 points for registering my email, but I still can't post. 51 points show up in the top bar on the main page, but when I go to post, the top bar says I only have ...

I have committed on using Stack Overflow (in German), and I think there will be some "reputation chasers", who will take the most popular questions from the English stack overflow, translate them (may ...

It seems like ~120 rep just disappeared off of my account for no reason with no record or log. It doesn't appear to be linked to any recent proposal or question deletions, so I'm not sure why so much ...

A few minutes ago, I had 252 rep. I recently discovered the recalc page. I clicked the recalc button, and now I am down to 187. Why would I end up loosing rep from recalculating? Is there any way to ...

Over the last days I thought I observed inconsistencies in the computation of users with 200+ reputation on other sites. I then started regularly checking the statistics for the Personal Manufacturing ...

Proposal: Turkish Stack Overflow
If you list the commiters by user reputation, you will see that, the users in the 8th page have already 200+ rep on any other SX site where as the commitment score is ...

New 51-folks like me would like to vote for "Not a good example" sometimes.
We are tempted to vote for the opposite tendency (on/off-topic) instead, but what we really mean is "Not a good example". ...

The gardening and landscaping site just went into private beta. When I logged into the new site for the first time my reputation was at "1". Is this correct?...or is something wrong? I was assuming ...